Music and the Celtic Otherworld
Subtitle: From Ireland to Iona
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780312232412
Subjects: Ethnic; Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional; History & Criticism - General; Music / History & Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Ireland; Ethnomusicology; Folklore; History; Music/Songbooks; Celtic music; Europe; Folk music; History and criticism; History: World
First sentence: FROM THE BEAUTIFUL, ENCHANTING music of the fairy harp to the sacred singing of the choirs of angels, Celtic literature has many references to a spiritual or supernatural dimension of music.